Abstract Designs

Hello all! This week I have decided to write about the little designs that I draw all over my school papers. I started doing this last year around May and found that it's a good way for me to release extra energy and actually stay focused on what's happening in class. All of last year and even throughout the first few weeks this year I would ALWAYS do symmetrical designs. It messed with me if everything didn't perfectly match what was on the other side. I've noticed, however, that starting in like late September I've only been drawing asymmetrical things and that when I try to draw symmetrical things they bore me.

I find this ridiculously interesting (especially since I want to be a neuroscientist) and I really want to know what switch was turned on or off in my brain that made me like these abstract designs more than my previous symmetrical designs, and why now? I've thought a lot about it and about what was happening in my life in September but really the only thing that I can think of is starting 10th grade. I'm taking chemistry and precalculus this year and I have a very loose hypothesis that maybe all of the math involved in those subjects combined with the math aspect of the symmetry kind of overloaded my brain and was too much math. Because of this I think that I have started to draw very abstract pictures with some geometrical aspect to them occasionally. Here are some of the designs I've done.

Here are two of the very first designs I did


This is one that I did during health class over the summer


I did this during the debates in CAP


NSL class


I even drew on my hands and painted my nails with these designs.


Finally, this is my precalculus folder that I drew on.